Hi Patrick,
I am a bassist from Vancouver BC, Canada. I'm currently studying with a bassist who has studied with you and she mentioned a new (to her) exercise you have apparently been using with your students you had recently shown her.
My teacher could not quite remember exactly what the exercise entails but I understood from her it to be something like moving the arm in a quite large, free gesture to finger certain notes on each string. The idea being to teach the large muscle groups to be more involved in fingering notes. I think they might be, on the G-string, D in 3rd pos. with the 1st finger, G at the 8ve harmonic with the thumb (4th pos), D at the start of 5th pos with the thumb, and G at the 2nd 8ve with the thumb (6th pos). Is that correct? And it's approached somewhat like going to the driving range or shooting range, where one is probably not very accurate at first but the movement is gradually honed in over time to be accurate and in tune.
I'm hoping this explanation makes sense! Does that sound familiar to you at all? Could you describe it in more detail and correct me if I'm wrong about anything? Thanks!
-Wynston
I am a bassist from Vancouver BC, Canada. I'm currently studying with a bassist who has studied with you and she mentioned a new (to her) exercise you have apparently been using with your students you had recently shown her.
My teacher could not quite remember exactly what the exercise entails but I understood from her it to be something like moving the arm in a quite large, free gesture to finger certain notes on each string. The idea being to teach the large muscle groups to be more involved in fingering notes. I think they might be, on the G-string, D in 3rd pos. with the 1st finger, G at the 8ve harmonic with the thumb (4th pos), D at the start of 5th pos with the thumb, and G at the 2nd 8ve with the thumb (6th pos). Is that correct? And it's approached somewhat like going to the driving range or shooting range, where one is probably not very accurate at first but the movement is gradually honed in over time to be accurate and in tune.
I'm hoping this explanation makes sense! Does that sound familiar to you at all? Could you describe it in more detail and correct me if I'm wrong about anything? Thanks!
-Wynston
